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Super Learning
The Man Who Started It All
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Dr.
Georgi Lozanov, M.D., Ph.D. (dr_lozanov@yahoo.com)"began his research on the reserves
of the human personality more than 30 years ago and in 1966 began his
collaboration with Dr. Evelyna Gateva, who introduced art, music and
dance into the teaching system." He was the scientist who invented Super
Learning, also called Suggestopedia.
"He was the founder of the Research Institute for Suggestology in Sofia and
its director for manyyears. He was also the director of the
Centre for Suggestology at Sofia University..." DESUGGESTIVE LEARNING is "Information from the office of Dr Lozanov" and has all of his contact informationa as well as gives the rules for communications with his people and the requirements for training. | |
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A Research Source | |
| Accelerated Learning Robert E. Slavin (Johns Hopkins University) - "This paper represents an effort to summarize the current status of research on effective instruction." In attempting to give an unbiased view of a number of teaching methods it fails to support any of them in an effective manner. But one can get a basic understanding of a number of popular teaching methods and the terminology assigned to each of these. It would be a great place to start your critical evaluation in regards to the efficacy of SuperLearning, or, as it is called generally, in the U.S., "Accelerated Learning." It has, by far, the most number of helpful sources in regards to superior teaching and learning techniques; though very few of them have any reference to SuperLearning or Lozanov's techniques. | |
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Other Links | |
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Tony Stockwell's: EFFECT
(LIECHTENSTEIN) Learning Forum (Oceanside, CA) Suggestive-Accelerative Learning at Trident School of Languages, 1992 The 8 Second Cycle: Essay on Dr W. Jane Bancroft's Educational Productivity: Accelerated Learning International Alliance for Learning (Encinitas, CA) |
The Society for Effective Affective Learning
SEAL
(UK) Hrašnįm (e. Accelerated Learning) The Boulder Center of Accelerative Learning Accelerative Learning Success Stories (from the above page) Paul Scheele's: Learning Strategies Corporation (Wayzata, Minnesota) Accelerated Learning and Teaching Network of ASCD (Encinitas, CA) |
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"The
largest number of studies of SALT by far were authored or
co-authored by the editor of the Journal
of
Accelerated Learning and Teaching,
Donald Schuster." This "research is of mixed quality
and is difficult to evaluate." "...and therefore has
not been subjected to the rigorous peer review typical of the
journals published by the American Educational Research
Association or other scientific organizations." "Most
SALT studies are either very brief or use very small samples, or
both, and some had no control groups. Accelerated Learning at Home & School has accounts of success in the classroom with Super Learning techniques. "Suggestopedia was originally introduced as an intensive, foreign language teaching program. In recent years, however, elements of Suggestopedia have been adopted for accelerated learning of a wide variety of subject material. Increasingly, Suggestopedia, and its North American adaptation SALT, an acronym for "System of accelerative learning and teaching", are being used in schools and colleges in Europe and North America (Scovel, 1979)." Depamo, B. and Job, R. F. S. (1990).An evaluation of SALT (Suggestive-accelerative learning and teaching) techniques. [Australian Journal of Educational Technology, 6(1), 36-55] is a less than favorable assessment of these techniques. Journal: The Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning andTeaching (SALT, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa) (Formerly Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning) was published from 1980 - 1993. For one year after this the same magazine was published under a different name. Then it was published as the Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching. The Center for Accelerated Learning (Lake Geneva, WI) also has a page of corportations that have successfully used Super Learning. Their A.L. Resources page is THE best Super Learning Resources page that I have seen so far. Tony Owens Accelerated Learning Research Students page gives email addresses for many people studying Lozanov's methods. MUSICA (The Music & Science Information Computer Archive) is a newsletter issued Winter, Spring and Fall, that provides reports and critical analysis of research on music and behavior, including education, child development, psychology, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, clinical medicine, music therapy and allied fields. BRAINWORKS: New Zealand's Accelerated Learning, Training and Resource Specialist Glen Capelli's: The True Learning Centre (East Perth, Australia) includes "some suggestopedia elements" in their training/teaching. Accelerated Learning Network (Denver, Colorado) Zephyr Press - Most of our titles emphasize teaching that uses multiple intelligences theory and brain-compatible learning environments. Lozanov's technique used Baroque music to relax the mind while keeping it alert for learning. Suggestopedia Book: Suggestopedia and Language Acquisition: Variations on a Theme by W. Jane Bancroft | |
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Reading Material and Other Resources | |
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ERIC
(Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse) has many references to
Accelerated Learning Suggestive Accelerative Learning Techniques (Schuster & Gritton, 1985).Dr Lyelle L. Palmer, Ph.D., (Director, Office of Accelerated Learning) has an extensive list of further reading resources. Super Learning References, Books, etc. is a small text file you can look at for further reading. | |
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